October 24, 2018

Not Feeling

Came across some thoughts expressed by poet e.e. cummings on being true to one's inner voice and, in keeping with one of the themes of this blog, namely to trust creative instinct over intellect, I thought this pithy observation relevant not only to poetry, but to the creative process in general:

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.